{"id":36340,"date":"2025-08-01T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36340\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:48:20","slug":"china-siblings-fight-over-dads-us420000-inheritance-discover-neither-is-biological-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36340\/","title":{"rendered":"China siblings fight over dad\u2019s US$420,000 inheritance, discover neither is biological child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An inheritance dispute in China took a dramatic turn when a brother and sister battling over a three million yuan (US$420,000) legacy inadvertently discovered that neither of them was the biological child of their deceased parents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The case began after Sun, the family patriarch from the city of Tianjin in northern China, died in March 2025, according to the Henan Broadcasting System.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before his death, he had transferred ownership of a three million yuan property solely to his son.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He also left a statement requesting that his son provide \u201creasonable compensation\u201d to his adopted daughter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The siblings, both of whom were adopted, were locked in battle over a residential property. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2834ac7c-feff-4529-a535-0d920fef5153_61df6943.jpg\" title=\"The siblings, both of whom were adopted, were locked in battle over a residential property. Photo: AFP\"\/>The siblings, both of whom were adopted, were locked in battle over a residential property. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur daughter is adopted, but we have always treated her as our own. In our later years, it was our son who took care of us. We gave the house to him, and he intends to compensate his sister. We hope you two can get along like true siblings,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inheritance dispute in China took a dramatic turn when a brother and sister battling over a three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32898,64,63,13815,8172,6978,99,12753,512,4690,1783,3895,1108,13011,18934,32899,32904,1116,2582,32893,1913,186,1481,32441,15868,9959,32895,23020,15260,32896,184,185,32903,32900,32894,32902,32892,32897,9705,25758,434,32901,22639],"class_list":["post-36340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-adopted","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-battle","tag-biological","tag-brother","tag-business","tag-child","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-compensation","tag-contract","tag-court","tag-customs","tag-dad","tag-daughter","tag-drama","tag-evidence","tag-family","tag-father","tag-fight","tag-finance","tag-house","tag-household","tag-inheritance","tag-law","tag-legacy","tag-legal","tag-norms","tag-patriarch","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-plot","tag-registration","tag-relatives","tag-rift","tag-siblings","tag-sister","tag-son","tag-statement","tag-television","tag-traditional","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}